Hat-holder for chairs.



S. HENIGSON.

HAT HOLDER FOR CHAIRS.

. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 19. 1915.

1,147,505. Patented July 20, 1 15.

samuel 'gson ATTORNEYS" UNIT HAT-HOLDER FOB CHAIRS.

Application filed January 19, 1915.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, SAMUEL HENIGSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Hat-Holder for Chairs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to hat holders for chairs or the like, and has particular reference to an attachment to be connected to the under portion of the seat of a chair or the like for use in lunchrooms, theaters or other analogous purposes.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide, for a chair or seat, a convenient and reliable holder for the accommodation of a hat or other article while the seat is being occupied.

More definitely stated, the improvement includes a main rigid back portion which constitutes a guard to limit the rearward movement of the hat, and a pivoted lower or front portion which may be opened downwardly against the force of a spring or springs and adapted to move upwardly automatically under the force of the spring or springs to retain the hat.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forming a part of this specification in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a conventional form of chair having my improvement applied thereto and indicating a hat being held thereby; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same without the hat; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the holder detached.

The several parts of this device may be made of any suitable materials, and the relative sizes and proportions, as well as the general design of the mechanism, may be varied to a considerable extent without departing from the spirit of the invention hereinafter more fully described and specifically claimed.

Referring more particularly to the draw- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1915.

Serial No. 3,078.'

ings, I show a chair 10 having a seat 11. To the lower surface of the back portion of the seat is rigidly secured the back panel 12 or guard of my improved holder, the same being shown herein as including a series of vertical bars 13 and 13 and a series of horizontal bars 14. Each of the vertical bars is provided with an angularly turned eye 15 through which a screw 16 or thelike may be passed upwardly into the seat ll and whereby the guard panel 12 is secured in position. The lower ends of the vertical bars 13 are provided also with eyes or loops 17 and the end bars 18 are preferably provided also with loops 18 adjacent their upper ends.

At 19 I show a movable portion or keeper shown as made up preferably of longitudinal and transverse bars. As shown herein the longitudinal bars 20 at the sides of the keeper are provided with eyes or loops 20 and upturned fingers 21. The intermediate longitudinal bar 22 is similar to the bars 20 but without the eye 20'. These three longitudinal bars have eyes 28 at their rear ends for pivotal engagement with the eyes 17 of the guard. Any suitable number of said transverse bars indicated at 2 1 may be provided.

At 25 I show a pair of springs, either of coiled metal wire or the equivalent, connected to and extending between the pairs of eyes 18 and 20 on each side of the holder. The normal tendency of these springs is to hold the keeper elevated in holding position, but being of flexibility sufficient to allow the operator to draw the keeper downwardly, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, to introduce his hat beneath the seat and back of the upwardly projecting fingers 21. After the hat is thus introduced into the holder, the springs will lift the keeper into holding position, thereby retaining the hat in a safe position closely beneath the seat 11.

I claim:

In a hat holder, the combination of a rear guard panel comprising vertical and transverse bars interlocked together, certain of said vertical bars having eyes formed therein adjacent their upper ends, a keeper panel comprising longitudinal and transverse bars, certain of said longitudinal bars being pivotallyconnected to the lower ends of the vertieal bars of the guard and having their name to this specification in the presence of front ends formed with upturned fingers, tWo subscribing Witnesses. and a pair of springs extending between said guard eyes and the front portion of said SAMUEL HENIGSON' 5 keeper panel and serving to maintain the Witnesses:

keeper panel elevated in holding position. GEO. L. BEELER,

In testimony whereof I have signed my GEORGE E. EMsLIE.

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